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02356aam a2200349Ia 4500 001 78C5BEA6EA0B11E7B6F5700597128E48 003 SILO 005 20171226010227 008 130928t20142014cau b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1849351945 020 $a 9781849351942 035 $a (OCoLC)859192389 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCO $d SFR $d UAB $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 4 $a HD1251 $b .G73 2014 082 04 $a 333.3 $2 23 245 00 $a Grabbing back : $b essays against the global land grab / $c edited by Alexander Reid Ross. 264 1 $a Oakland, CA : $b AK Press, $c [2014] 300 $a 358 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Climate change ravages the earth, while wealthy elites try to grab as much of the world's diminishing resources as possible. As Vandana Shiva writes, land is life. But land, and the struggle to possess it, is also power-- colonial and corporate power, to be sure, but also the power of the dispossessed to rise up and call for an end to the global land grab. Grabbing Back maps this struggle, bringing together analysis that uncover the politics of cultivation and control. In this unprecedented collection, on-the-ground activists join forces with critically acclaimed scholars to documents the commodification and consumption of space, from foreclosed homes to annihilated rainforests, from ecotourism in Sri Lanka to the tar sands of Montana, and to outline the strategies and tactics that might halt the destruction"--P. [4] of cover. 650 0 $a Land tenure $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Social movements. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123979 650 0 $a Protest movements. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005953 650 0 $a Land use $x History $x History $y 21st century. 700 1 $a Ross, Alexander Reid. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2015001285 700 1 $a Shiva, Vandana. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87148240 700 1 $a Chomsky, Noam. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79104267 700 1 $a Rameau, Max. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010205285 700 1 $a Boggs, Grace Lee. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87122677 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213022605.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=78C5BEA6EA0B11E7B6F5700597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search